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The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience 2022
June 27th - July 14th 2022
The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience has an international group of young artists develop an interdisciplinary stage show within two weeks. Working together, uniting their artistic fields and supported and coached by professional Artists.
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In summer 2022 the time has finally come again: Around 40 young artists from different countries and cultural backgrounds will meet for two weeks of living and creating together in the Landesmusikakademie NRW in the area of Heek-Nienborg and develop an interdisciplinary stage performance. Professional artists will coach and support them along the way. The result will be shown in cologne on the 12th and 13th of July, as well as at a public rehearsal in Heek on the 9th of July. In this Project, working methods that were developed during previous projects like the award-winning RRXP17 and RRXP19 will be developed further, Ideas will be connected and the different art forms of the participants will be brought together under the artistic direction of Sophie Laffont (RRXP19).
The years 2020 and 2021 have been, as one can say today, years of uncertainty. Where does the road lead in the face of incalculable factors like the global corona-pandemic, the russian war of aggression in Ukraine, a worsening refugee crisis and rising antidemocratic tendencies? This uncertainty creates a tense climate of fear and aggressive discourse in which societies are divided more and more, be it through emotionalized discourse, through ever-rising economical divides or simple conspiracy theories and misinformation.
The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience
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Dates
May 2022
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You are between the ages of 16 and 27 and enjoy music production, dance, theater or media creation? You want to participate in international artistic exchanges in the year 2022…
June 2022
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In summer 2022 the time has finally come again: Around 40 young artists from different countries and cultural backgrounds will meet for two weeks of living and creating together in…
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40 young artists from 8 countries met up in the summer of 2022 for two weeks of living and working together in the Landesmusikakademie NRW in Heek-Nienborg: the working methods…
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Statements from Participants
JazzP Beckmann
The time with ROOTS & ROUTES has been a phenomenal journey. As a young hiphop…
Penelope Brachou
ROOTS & ROUTES has been one of the greatest connectors that allowed me to enjoy…
Marialena Tsiamoura
When I think about ROOTS & ROUTES, it’s like I think of a different kind…
David “Day” Sebuyange
R&R is a creative home I would like to call it, where I can connect…
Daniel “Blu” Sebuyange
ROOTS & ROUTES to me is family, its great memories, laughter, creativity and unity. I…
Yarima Lugo
The safe and open environment that these projects offer create such a strong bond between…
Gabriele Cinti
Art is not only entertainment, it is much more, is an educative and strongly political…
Alex Di Capua
My first ROOTS & ROUTES Experience was in 2016 and since then, I couldn’t get…
Funding
RRXP22 is a RRCGN-project and is funded by the EU-Programm Erasmus+, the plan for support of children and youth of the land of northrhine-westphalia (MKFFI NRW) and the city of cologne. International project partners are SMouTh Larissa/Greece, Street Dance Center Salzburg/Austria, Subjective Values Foundation Budapest/Hungary, GAIN Liverpool/UK, KITKC Kaunas/Lithuania, ROOTS & ROUTES Niederlande and CCC Florence/Italy.
